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5:25 PM ET, August 31, 2016

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Danielle Kantor / Hillary Clinton 2016:
Donald Trump is about to meet the president of Mexico.  Which of these tweets might they discuss?  —  A big, beautiful list of tweets.  —  Donald Trump is headed to Mexico to meet with the country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto.  If you're surprised by that news—well, you're not alone.
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
Mexicans Accuse President of ‘Historic Error’ in Welcoming Donald Trump  —  MEXICO CITY — If President Enrique Peña Nieto invited Donald J. Trump to visit Mexico for a dialogue in the interest of democracy, the message has fallen on deaf ears.  —  Instead, the predominant feeling here in the Mexican capital is one of betrayal.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Can Trump Be This Stupid?  (Not a Trick Question)  —  We have news tonight that tomorrow, in advance of his big immigration speech in Arizona, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.  This is such an outlandish idea it is not easy to make sense of it or predict its outcome.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump to meet in Mexico with the country's president
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump lands in Mexico for last-minute meeting with President Peña Nieto
Nick Gass / Politico:
Mexico rages against Trump visit
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump for ‘Dropping In’ on Mexico
Discussion: Associated Press and alan.com
CNN:
Donald Trump mulling Mexico trip
Washington Post:
Mexicans are angry at their own president for meeting with Trump
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Traveling media not accompanying Trump to Mexico
Annie Rees / Talking Points Memo:
In NYT's Hillary Clinton Coverage, An Obsession With ‘Clouds’ And ‘Shadows’  —  Things are dark and stormy in The New York Times coverage of Hillary Clinton - or maybe The Gray Lady has merely misplaced her thesaurus.  —  TPM Reader AR wrote in after he noticed that in recent months …
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Douglas Ernst / Washington Times:
WikiLeaks' Assange: Reporters ‘erecting a demon’ by protecting Hillary Clinton  —  Whistleblower says Democrat will 'put nooses around everyone's necks as soon as she wins'  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday accused “the American liberal press” of “erecting a demon” by shielding Hillary Clinton from criticism.
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Poll: Clinton Unpopularity at New High, on Par With Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's unpopularity reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, putting her on par with Donald Trump among registered voters.  —  The latest findings solidify their positions as the two most unpopular …
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Newly-Leaked Democratic Memo Calls Black Lives Matter ‘Radical,’ Tells Staff Not To Offer Support
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
'It's outrageous': Clinton's aides had concerns about email setup  —  Hillary Clinton continued sending classified information even after leaving the State Department, The Post has exclusively learned.  —  On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Gallup: Life got better for pretty much everyone under Obama  —  How Americans feel about the state of their lives have improved markedly in the eight years since Barack Obama was elected president, according to Gallup data released Tuesday.  —  In 2008, fewer than half of Americans …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Vox
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Dan Witters / Gallup:   Americans' Life Evaluations Improve During Obama Era
Richard W. Painter / New York Times:
The Real Clinton Foundation Revelation  —  When I was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, I asked many prospective administration officials if they would sell stock in companies, give up stock options, step down from nonprofit boards or make other painful choices to enter public service.
Discussion: Politico and LawNewz
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Win, Lose, but No Compromise
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
LePage demands apology from reporter, vows to never speak to press again  —  Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday blamed a reporter in part for his fiery outburst to a state lawmaker last week and vowed never to speak with the press again.  —  LePage last Thursday left an obscenity-laced voicemail …
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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Paul LePage insists he's staying put
Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
Professors tell students: Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change  —  ‘We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change’  —  Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told …
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Watchdog: IRS failed to notify over 1M people of identity theft  —  The Internal Revenue Service identified close to 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. High Court Won't Revive North Carolina Photo-ID Law  —  Supreme Court justices divide 4-4 on order in voting dispute  —  Action is win for Obama administration, civil rights groups  —  An evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate North Carolina's Republican-backed voting restrictions …
Discussion: Vox and Joe.My.God.
Florida Times Union:
Northeast Florida voters kick controversial State Attorney Angela Corey out of office  —  Melissa Nelson, an unknown corporate lawyer and former prosecutor three months ago, cleared her path to become one of the most powerful and influential figures in Northeast Florida on Tuesday night …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton camp thinks Trump fell for old trick  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign feels confident.  So confident that behind closed doors her team is taking some credit for forcing Donald Trump to seemingly defend territory that Republicans almost never lose.  —  After weeks of Brooklyn telegraphing …
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Awkward: All GOP State Senate Candidates Have Same Kids In Ads  —  It seems all the targeted Republican state senate candidates had a big TV shoot recently, as they've all posted their first ads online in the past few weeks.  The ads themselves are so-so at best, but you rarely see very creative TV spots at the statehouse level.
Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner bragged about using his kid as a ‘chick magnet’  —  When Weiner's sext partner jokingly told him to put his kid to work, he replied, “Already at work.  Being a chick magnet.”  —  Anthony Weiner didn't just send his latest sexting partner a crotch shot selfie with his young son curled …
John Hersey / New Yorker:
Hiroshima  —  At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office …
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
NYT Columnist Nicholas Kristof Says the Holocaust is America's Fault  —  Nicholas Kristof is your stereotypical elite liberal media guy.  He has an absolute disdain for America and he has a grasp of history that rivals a five year old holding a 500-page college textbook …
 
 
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Politico:
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Trump's race politics will destroy GOP
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Man leaves woman chilling voicemail that he tortured, killed her dog
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 Earlier Items: 
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Obama commutes sentences for 111 inmates
Georgia Diebelius / Metro.co.uk:
People left with broken bones after plane to Heathrow suffers severe turbulence
Discussion: UK and AOL
NBC News:
Prosecutor Probes Trump Campaign CEO Stephen Bannon's Voter Record
Discussion: LawNewz and Talking Points Memo
Melissa Hogenboom / BBC:
A dog has given birth to the first identical twin puppies
Steven Nelson / US News:
A Candidate's Death Could Delay or Eliminate the Presidential Election
Eryn Rogers / WSPA-TV:
Student claims teacher trashed her shoes at Greenville Co. school
Discussion: Raw Story, The Root and 6
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago gangs no longer know or fear the police, and bodies pile up
Discussion: Hot Air and VDARE
 

 
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